Nothing Says I Love You Like An Arrow In The Face

Meet Ivy. She’s my love interest in the Xbox 360 demo for Arcania: Gothic 4. I’m shooting her in the face with arrows, because I love her. We’re gonna get married! Keep in mind this is a work in progress demo. Hopefully in the full version the chickens will be impervious to arrows as well.

Played: DeathSpank: Thongs of Virtue

DeathSpank: Thongs Of Virtue is video game deja vu if deja vu involved feeling like you’ve done the thing you’re doing before — but maybe not ever before in a boat. Style: You are DeathSpank one of the intentionally more dimwitted video game action heroes, and you are in a cartoon parody world in which…

ModNation Racers Joins The Line-up Of Cheaper PS3 Games

Earlier today, Sony welcomed a new batch of value priced Greatest Hits games for the PlayStation 3. Turns out MAG, Demon’s Souls and MotorStorm: Pacific Rift aren’t the only PS3 exclusives having their prices slashed. Add ModNation Racers to the list of cheaper PS3 games, starting right now. The “Play. Create. Share.” kart racing game…

WiiWare Gets Its Wipeout On With FAST

There can never be too much high-velocity antigrav racing, so we welcome the addition of FAST Racing League, coming to WiiWare courtesy of Shin’en Multimedia. What does it take to create a successful futurist antigrav racer? First comes style, which, judging from these initial screens, FAST has covered. We’re going to have to wait for…

How Do You Say “Kill It With Fire” In German?

Sackboy and Buzz appear larger-than-life at this weekend’s Game City in Vienna, Austria. Check out more photos from the event at the German PlayStation Blog Gameface is a photographic celebration of the people who make, play and love video games. And Google translate says it’s “Kill sie mit dem Feuer.”

The Kotaku Guide To Fall Video Games

Fall is supposed to be the best time of the video game year, the entree and the dessert after the first nine month’s meager salad and interactive appetizer. But in 2010, the winter and spring were bountiful and fall is at risk of seeming pathetic. Could it be? These are your fall games of 2010.…

A Coffee Table that Loves to Bump and Grind

Having sufficiently mourned the passing of that pinball machine you’ve nurtured over the years, until it finally, irrevocably gave up its blinking ghosts, it’s now time to move on and celebrate the good times. And how better to celebrate the life of such a wondrous off-spring of clock works and diodes then by ripping out…

Setting Up Kinect Is Like Preparing For A Date

Vacuum your floors. Reduce background noise. Make sure you have adequate lighting. Are we playing video games here or hoping to score? This Xbox Live video shows the steps needed to ensure a pleasurable Kinect Experience. Kinect will never work in my apartment. I do have six feet of room between my television and my…

Guitar Hero: Warriors of Rock Visual Guide

Guitar Hero: Warriors of Rock’s debut trailer. The girls of Guitar Hero: Warriors of Rock can transform into far less attractive cobra women, so don’t get too attached. If you’re looking for lurid camera angles, watch this teaser trailer. Megadeth’s “Sudden Death” on Expert difficulty proves that developer Neversoft isn’t letting up on the challenge…

First Resistance 3 Screens Paint A Grim Picture

A collection of screenshots and concept art for Resistance 3 have surfaced, painting a wonderfully dark picture of the United States in the grip of the Chimeran forces. Can Joseph Capelli save the day? Kotakuite Darkos87 pointed us towards these fresh Resistance 3 screenshots and concept art pieces on Flickr, giving us our first look…

Uncharted 2 Gets A Well-Deserved Game Of The Year Edition

We can think of no better recipient of a Game of the Year Edition than Kotaku’s 2009 Game of the Year Uncharted 2. What will $50 net fans come October 12? The Uncharted 2: Among Thieves Game of the Year Edition hits retailers on October 12. Celebrating the myriad awards given Naughty Dog’s masterpiece including…

ZQ Fall Edition Makes Dead Rising 2’s Zombies Chic

The fall issue of Zombie Quarterly is here, packed with zombie dating advice, Fortune City’s latest haute fashions, some neat DIY for affordable mayhem and an exclusive interview with the new guy in town: Chuck Greene. As always, the big draw to ZQ’s chunky 40-plus page special fall preview is as much the photos as…

Resistance 3 Screen Shots

Red Dead Redemption’s Cover Art Has Seen Better Days

Rockstar teases us with a first look at the artwork for the upcoming Red Dead Redemption Undead Nightmare downloadable content. The Undead Nightmare art is a gruesome take on the original Red Dead Redemption cover art, with James John Marston replaced with a slightly more fearsome cowboy. The Undead Nightmare pack follows Marston on a…

Preview: Finding Happiness With Child of Eden

Developer Q? Entertainment’s Child of Eden finds players in a happier place than the game it was inspired by, the trippy 2001 musical shooter Rez. Rez, for those who may have missed it on the Dreamcast, PlayStation 2 or Xbox Live Arcade, is an on-rails shooter built on the multi-sensory concept of synaesthesia and the…

Child of Eden’s Ending Will Feature Your Happiest Moments

Tetsuya Mizuguchi wants to share your “happy feelings” with the world—or at least with the people who play Child of Eden, developer Q? Entertainment’s spiritual sequel to the classic synaesthetic shooter Rez. Ubisoft and Q? announced “The Journey Project,” a user generated submission initiative that will let players share their joy with the world, at…

Child of Eden Screenshots & Artwork

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The Stars Shine Bright In Fable III

Simon Pegg, Ben Kingsley, John Cleese, and Michael Fassbender headline an all-star cast of men and women with British accents in this voice acting installment of the Lionhead video diaries. The voice cast for Fable III is one of the most talented gathering of voices ever assembled. Particularly impressive is Sir Ben Kingsley in his…